Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble began in late September, when three electrical-transmission towers, all over 70 ft. high, in a remote, wooded area 140 miles east of Portland, Ore., were rocked by a dynamite blast. Since then, ten more towers in a region that stretches 140 miles east of Portland have been dynamited-three of them toppled. Another three were found with attached explosive devices that had failed to go off. Clearly, somebody was out to sabotage the facilities of the Bonneville Power Administration, the federally owned agency that provides 80% of the electric power used in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana...
...Oregon, fans of the World Football League's Portland Storm press together in a 27,500-seat stadium built for baseball before the Hoover Depression. On Randall's Island in the middle of New York's East River, the quarterback of the city's Stars tosses passes into darkness as his team plays under lights first used 35 years ago at Ebbets Field, where apartment houses now stand. ("This is the only stadium, and the only league," says Star Defensive End Gerry Philbin, "where they decide on the coin flip whether they'll take...
Among the other papers that came out against Nixon at midweek were the San Francisco Chronicle, the Portland Oregonian, the New Orleans Times-Picayune & the Dallas Times-Herald. The Dallas Morning News also deserted him, but not until the very last day of Nixon's presidency. Its confidence in the former President, said the Morning News at week's end, had been "misplaced...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
Richard di Franco, 36, was shaving before going to work in his Portland, Me., restaurant. Standing in the doorway, Ferdinand, his large three-year-old St. Bernard, looked on. Di Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...